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Mullens, Sol•citors, Poultry 7, London, E.C., or to Inspector Hamilton, Detective Police-office, 26, Old Jewry, London, E.C. London, Ist January, 1864. BUILDING GROUND. cult of LONDON. com INOTicE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the City Lands lOteP t ee will meet at Guildhall, on WEDNESD NY, the February next, at 1 o'clock nrecisely, to RECEIVE pit "VO S AL 3 for a BUILDING LEASE for 80 Years, of the the east the PRE VI IS E S known as Nos. 19, 20. 21, and 22, on side 01 Billiter-street, in the City of London. th e Ar rurthe chitectr particulars may be obtained upon application at ' office. G h all. Guildhall, Jan. 7, FERDINAND . BRAND, Comptroller. 1864 THE CONSOLIDATED DISCOUNT COMPANY (Limited). No. 4, ABCHURCH-LANE. Capital £1,000,000. DIRECTORS. George Walter Constable, Esq. (Messrs. Constable and kes 1, Mining-ane. George Denny, c Esq. l (Messrs. George Denny and Co.), Great St. Helenttl's. William Lie, Esq., Director of the Cape Town Railway. Win. M'Arthur, Esq. (of the firm of Win. and Alexander M'Arthur, Australian Merchants), 46, Moorgate-street. F. J. Sargood, Esq. (Messrs. Sargood, King, and Sargood), Londo ShepherdboeThomas Richardson, Es Director of the Buenos Ayres and Ri ver P late Bank. cl" James Thompson, Esq. (Messrs. Le Gros Thompson and Co.), Gutter -lane. *Hugh Fraser Sandeman, Esq. *Richard Manners Sanderson, Esq. Messrs. Sandeman & Co. *Samuel Baker, Esq. * Committee of Management. BANKERS. The London and Westminster Blink. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Sole, Turners, and Hardwick. The business of this Company being in active operation, the Directors are prepared to Discount approved Mercantile Bills and to make advances upon newotiable Securities. c Motley received on deposit, at call and short notice, at the invent market rat es , and for longer periods upon terms to be EPedally agreed upon. 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OCTATIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. e•ORGE PEARRES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor. S ir JOHN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. Wiimot Holland, Esq. 10) Bainbridge, Esq. e rt Barclay, Esq. Earl of Levenan Manning, Esq. h u Garratt Cattley, Esq. Chas. Jno. E wark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. illiam Davidson, Esq. Hon. Josceline W. Percy. Illhomas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. exander Drum, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. redk. Jos Edlnvirm Esq. Eric Carrineton Smith, Esq. lt,iversdale.W. Grenfell, William Soitau, Esq. Wm. E. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P. Jas. rn. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.' William Wallace, Esq. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. • Ch as. Baring Young, Esq. Medical Referee, SA3IUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES a be effected with this terms. Cor p o ration on advantageous m Y Insurances a gainst Fire on MPrchandize in the docks and Warehouses in the Port of London are accepted at the late reduced rates of Premium. FARMING -STOCK. —No extra charge Is made for the use of a Steam Thrashing Machine. The Reversionary Bonus on British Life Policies has ave raged nearly 2 per cent per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums Payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take place every Five years. L if A e nY Sum not exceeding X 15,000 may be insured on one This Corporation affords to the Assured— Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual ,So cieties—with the guarantee of a large invested Capit a l Stock. The advantages of modern practice,—with the security O f an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. IPEA.—MOORE BROTHERS respectfully inti tlit_irnate that their New Prospectus is now ready. 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ITlT„h_e numerous and urgent appeals of the sick poor for ad -44,71,011 compel the Committee to entreat the bounty of the •-•',!tent and humane, as the medical officers are daily obliged _Joirreat as out-patients many distressing cases which. with e adequate funds, they would gladly admit into the wari s. bedes?remises of the Hospital are capable of containing 500 The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on til,l!ll„tary contributions and legacies, which are received by b: reaaurer, Edward Ulsterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co.. Herrles and Co Pa y neansom and Co.;Prescott, Grote, and and Co.; Smith, CoCo. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay o vee o. ; Denison and Co. ; Deacon, and Co.; . Malt e nd. a Gurney, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street th e ,nn . n and Co. ; Barred and Co., Liverpool ; and at .Lospital, from 10 till 5. STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary, N°. 22,322. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1864. UNDER THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF HER MAJESTY. Now ready, Thirty-third Edition, 1 vol., with the Arms beau tifully engraved, handsome y bound, gilt edges , 31 s 6 d. , L ODGE'S PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE FOR 1861. WHERE CAN WE MEET AF TER THE PANTOMIMES? My dear Fellow, Gentlemen sup at EVANi', Covent-garden. opinions were irreproachable. If so, so much the worse for Dr. Winslow's theory. If Townley had always been mad, it would have been one thing. If he was only mad since the murder, and while conversing with his doctor and his chaplain, the affair alters its complexion. Mi. Dolan, a friend of Townley's—who was not called at the trial—next made statement on oath that in London on one occasion was certainly their duty as interpreters of English opinion to advise the Danes to surrender Holstein rather than fight —and as they did advise they were bound to see that the advice once taken did not involve utter ruin to those who took it. If Holstein were used a stepping-stone by which Germany might cross the Eider, then British advice would have ruined the nationality which looked to Britain for help. Such a result could not be endured by a power with any sense of self-respect, and frightful as the collision may be, it is on the invaders that the consequences and the responsibility must rest. The Government is bound to relax no effort to preserve the nation front a war which is not one of F elf-defence ; but that duty fairly performed, it is right that, as the Admiralty announce, " the Channel Fleet has been ordered to repair to a port in the British Isles." KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC, BRANDY. Corrected by the Nobility. "A work of great value. It is the most faithful record we possess of the aristocracy of the day."—Morning Post. Burst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It i 4 Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale Townley had purchased seven white hats and three um brellas, and had cut holes in the hats to distinguish them from one another. On another occasion Townley had jumped into the water with his clothes on, in apparent ignorance that he was not undressed. The evidence looks strangely On January 21, in 2 vole , post B vo., BELLA DONNA ; or, the Cross before the Name. A Novel. By GILBERT PYCE. 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded ‘,Kinahan's LL Whisky." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. suspicious. It given, it was given on an affidavit without cross-examination, and ex parte statements of this kind—we mean no disrespect to Mr. Dolan—are worth as a rule about as much as the paper on which they are written. But where was Mr. Dolan at the trial ? Explanations, we are informed have been given to the Home Secretary as to his absence. We shall be very glad to see them. As Townley's friends had got three months's notice of his trial, it is rather strange so important a witness was not present, though he is able to turn up a fortnight after, when the judge and the cross-examining counsel have gone back to their Christmas fireside, But even if Mr Dolan's evidence were all irre- fragable, to what & ludicrous nothing does it amount? Townley is absent in mind. Townley is eccentric in the way he treats his hats. Therefore Townley, when he cut Hiss Goodwin's throat, did not know what he was doing. Station. , ....,1.. . . . . . . . 7 . i.1... ,,....... . . t,..A.4:... , 1 /02... c..,...... . . , tit „ ,---------, . - ; .§fl \ . O :,111.4' ~.-• . ' . .. - X ., )) 1 • .t. l ' 1 1 l__ , .. „1,.., ,4;"4 ., 'Lgt....mu c o.... ---' -'''' - • ... ~ 0 • - , 1 j ~ • 7, , di- ' ' -' -a' 's- \ ' P6IC ZI ; • 4t 1 1111& , . , o. '4' . . 4, .., ' e ' .. "-, 1 / . . t . i , , Du i. 4, iie i5....t 1 . 1 .7,E,1i0.1if::::&, 16. 0 1 5 4, ) ,, ,i gr . :Po! , - .0 "1.1L ; a w ‘l ., a 1 . ,r7..."- ,....... , ,... ', .. ~. • y f fe . W i ~, ' . 4. -„,,-.7. - ~4 , dir' .--- "\ 1 4 . _ THE READER.--Those who had taken part in the oppo sition to the motion for inviting Mr. Thackeray to a Vice- Presidency of the Shaksperian Committee have been recently anxious to explain they had done so on mere grounds of form, and proposed that the portion of the minutes of the previous meeting which registered the unfortunate vote should be erased. The majority, however, were not satis fied with this mode of obliterating an act which all now re gretted ; and it was at length agreed that the minute of the unfortunate vote should remain, but that there should be inserted in the same minute-book a resolution expressing the participation of the committee in the com mon sorrow for Thackeray's premature decease, and their regret that, owing to circumstances, his name had not been added before that event to the list of the vice-presidents. As respects Thackeray or his memory the whole matter is now of inconceivably small consequence. Little will he reek, if they let him sleep on. But, from the extreme acer bity with which the matter is being commented on in the public papers and in private talk, it is to be feared that it will affect the unanimity and success of the proceedings, already so far advanced, for the adequate celebration of the coming Shakspeare Tercen tenary. This would be a great pity. There are but three months and a half between us and that 23d of April which, it had been determined, by the consent of so many who are far enough from any passion for pageants or popular demonstrations, should be made, as far as our British and nineteenth-century habits will permit, a great national festival. The organisation that, under the name of the National Shakespeare Committee, has been formed for this object, and especially for making arrangements for the erection of a monument to Shakespeare in London, is as complete and suitable, if we may judge from the names it includes, as any such organisation could be. If it should collapse or be crippled, we do not see how, in the brief time that remains, new arrangements can be made for a Shake spearian commemoration on the great scale that was con templated. There are a good many, we believe, to whom this would be a matter for no particular regret—who would not care although on the approaching 23d of April there should only be such scattered Shakespeare dinners as there have always been on that day of the year wherever the Shakespearian enthusiasm is rife, without any grand de vices for the centralisation or inter-connection of them, or any attempt to swell the feeling on this anniversary of the event that has made Stratford-on-Avon dear to the world. But these perhaps peculiarly constituted persons, who turn their backs upon everything, or in whom sociability is deficient ; and, recollecting how well the Burns Festival went off five years ago, most people have been thinking that it would be, to say the least, no bad thing to make a still greater experiment, in a Shakespeare Festival, of our powers, even in these morose days, of giving shape and simultaneous expression to a joyous national sentiment. It would be a pity if, while affairs were in train for such an experiment, there should come unnecessarily an interrup tion. And we do not see why an interruption should be necessary on account of what has recently happened. Why should not that ungraceful and unfortunate act, which all now regret, be regarded as simply the act of one scantily at tended Committee meeting, rectified, so far as it could be rec tified, by a restrospective resolution in another ? And why should not the National Shakespeare Committee still carry on the work which they were constituted to pro mote—that of collecting funds for the erection of a Shakespeare monument in London, and at the same time corresponding with whatever local bodies are preparing for local celebrations of the Tercentenary, so as to give some sort of unity and centralisation to the whole design ? It may, indeed, be necessary that more of the General Com mittee than have yet taken an active part in the business should now begin to do so. Were the Johnsons, the Gar ricks, and the Burkes of our day to take a little pains in arranging for this Shakespeare jubilee, and to lend a little of their personal co-operation as well as their mere names to the preliminary proceedings. there would be a general restoration of confidence. We should be glad to see Mr. Dickens, for example, who is one of the Vice-Presidents, bringing his great popularity and his well-known powers of organisation to bear upon the arrangements. A good deal, it seems, remains to be done and thought of. In particular there has been dissatisfaction at Stratford-on-Avon on the ground that the National Committee, instead of paying due regard to the pre-eminent claims of the dear little town in any celebration of the tercentenary that may be arranged, have been drawing all the elements for the celebration into a Lon don vortex. On this ground we see that the Mayor of Strat ford has been holding meetings and otherwise stirring up teal in mid-England for an independent Shakspearian fes tival, of which Stratford shall be the centre. For our part we think that Stratford should be made the centre of as much of the total national ceremonial of the celebration as it can be made to accommodate. On the anniversary, when it comes, most people will dine at the Shakespeare dinner that chances to be nearest to them ; but who is there that, if he could choose, would not a thousand times rather be at the Stratford-on-Avon din ner than at any of the others ? It might bo so arranged that Stratford should have at least a fair proportion on the occasion of those celebrities whose time is their own. In matter of monuments agreement between London and Strat ford might be more difficult ; but even that might be brought about by judicious management. What seems immediately essential is, as we have said, that more of the members of the General Committee shall take part in the business. Destructive Fire at the Brighton Railway Yesterday morning, shortly after five o'clock, a police constable, in passing along Tooley-street, Southwark, noticed smoke hovering over the great terminus of the Brighton and South Coast Railway at London-bridge. At first he imagined that a special train had just arrived, but in the course of a few seconds the crackling of glass and a lurid glare, Which shot up almost instantaneously, led him to the belief that a fire had broken out either within or near the station. He theretore sounded his rattle, which quickly brought to the spot other officers, and they then found that the Crystal Palace depart ment station was in flames. This particular part of the eta tion is about 55 feet broad and about 62 feet long. The roof was formed of thick glass, supported by iron columns and cross-bars, but none of them were able to withstand the intense heat of the fire, and the flames extended with un usual rapidity to the electric telegraph department, includ • ing the lobby, and also to another portion of the station 60 feet long and 50 broad. The fire next seized upon four goods trucks standing on a aiding on the line, and also on the adjoining offices. One or two of Shand and Mason's powerful engines are always kept at the station in case of a fire breaking out, in charge of a well-disciplined fireman; but after the ordinary traffic is over this person leaves, ge nerally at 1 a.m. In the present case he had gone home, and those left behind appear not to have known where the fire plugs—of which there were plenty in the station to meet any emergency—were situated ; consequently the men could render no assistance, except by removing property from contiguous offices. Mr. Henderson, the foreman of the London Brigade; Mr. J. Gerrard, the head of the steam land engines ; Mr. Swanton, and various other officials, came up with landsteam and manual-power engines, as did also another, which was brought from Hodge's Distillery, at Lambeth. Unfortunately another obstacle then pre sented itself, for the inhabitants, by some means, had for gotten to send for the turncocks, and the fire being thereby unrestrained continued to spread, and seizing upon the book and newspaper depots belonging to Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son, the whole presented one blaze, and the heat was so intense that the glass in the roof became molten, and the iron rods and supports twisted into a variety of forms. The turncocks at length arrived, and a splendid supply of water having been obtained the firemen went to work in their usual intrepid manner, and happily succeeded in cut ' ting off the further spread of the flames ; but they were unable to get them extinguished until about sixty or sixty-five feet of the roof of the Crystal Palace department station were destroyed, and another part, GO by 40, almost riddled by the action of the fire. The telegraph lobby, &c., are almost burned out, and the offices adjoining severely damaged by fire, and four trucks partially burned. The total loss will be very considerable, and it is not known whether the property was insured. The book depot and the offices of Messrs. Smith are also burned down, and the patent slate foot path which led to the trains was parted asunder by the heat of the conflagration and fell below, so that a temporary wooden platform was obligated to be laid down yesterday to enable travellers to reach their respec tive carriages. Another fire happened yesterday morning, on the pre mises of Messrs. Blumenthal and Co,. horsehair manufac turers, No. 11, Grey-street, Commercial-road East. The engines of the parish and the London Brigade, and the escapes quickly attended, and a bountiful supply of water baying been procured the fireman went to work, but they were unable to get the fire subdued until some tons weight of valuable stock were destroyed. Insured in the Commercial Union Office, The origin of the fire is unkEowL. PRICF ..4d. STAMPED ....sd. CHINA AND JAPAN. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) SHANGHAI, Nov. 26. The hope that all cause for apprehension from the foreign element in rebel interests had ceased has been some what rudely dissipated. The steamer Firefly—next to the Hyson the most useful boat at Gordon's disposal—was seized last week by a body of foreigners while lying at anchor in the Won gpoo, and carried off in triumph to Soochow. The Firefly came down on Friday afternoon, and was to have Left again on Saturday, but was detained at General Brown's request, as he desired an interview with Gordon, and was unable to leave till the following day. At daylight on Sunday morning, however, her quartermaster made his appearance at headquar ters with the announcement that she had been carp ried off during the night, that the rest of her crew had been made prisoners, but that he had escaped by jumping overboard. The Firefly had on board the armaments for the Tsatlee, another small steamer which has just been chartered by the Futai for ser vice with Gordon, and it was feared that her captors might by a bold stroke succeed in carrying off this vessel too; that her change of masters being un known, she might run through the Imperialist lines alongside the Tsatlee, as though for the purpose of discharging the stores destined for the latter and overpower the small crew. A mounted messenger was despatched in all haste to warn Gordon of his danger ; but, as it turned out, the apprehension was unfounded. The captors of the Firefly were satisfied with one prize, and took her directly to Soochow, where no doubt they were welcomed with einpresse went by the ilowang and handsomely rewarded. Suspicion at once pointed to Burgevine as the in stigator of the deed; it was like one of his bold strokes, and no one else could be thought of who pose sensed the ability to plan or the courage to carry out so daring an enterprise. Whether or not he were con cerned in the affair is likely to remain a mystery for the present, as he of course will not confess it, and his only confidants, if confidants they were, are now safely under the walls of Soochow. The next day a rumour got abroad that he had in person endea voured to seize another Chinese steamer, the Fei loong, but it was not till Tuesday that the story as sumed a definite shape, through the receipt of infor mation that Burgevine was a prisoner in the hands of the Fatal. Immediate steps were taken to obtain his release, but in the meantime his Excellency had become frightened at the breach of treaty of which he was guilty in detaining an American subject, and sent him, under a strong guard to the American consulate. The circumstances which led to his arrest are very differently narrated by Burgevine and by the Chinese. The former says that he wished to see Gordon, knew the steamer was getting up steam to go to Soochow, and went on board to ask a passage ; that he had been on board an hour or two waiting for her to start, when a posse of mandarin soldiers came on board, seized and bound him, flung him down, spat and jumped on htm, and robbed him of all his valuables. The Chinese, on the other hand, say that shortly after Burgevine's arrival three other Europeans came alongside in a sampan, refused to answer when hailed, were fired on, and sheered off; that Burgevine, directly they appeared, attempted to stop the firing, caught up a hatchet, cut one man down and split another's face open, and endea voured to sever the Feiloong's hawser, and cut her adrift. However this may be, Burgevine was at once set at liberty by the United States' Consul, greatly to the disgust of the Chinese, and took to his bed in consequence of the injuries he had re ceived at their hands. The following day, however, he was again arrested, this time by the United States' Consul himself, and is lodged in the Con sular gaol until his health will permit him to be de ported from China. Nothing has, I believe, been proved against him, but the feeling is general that so long as he remains in Shanghai captures of Fire flys and despatches of boatloads of arms to the rebels are always to be dreaded. Besides, the Chinese regard him with suspicion, and permitting him to remain at large will certainly engender ill-feeling on their part toward both the English and American authorities, for they do not discriminate very lucidly between the two nationalities in such a case as the present. In the meantime Gordon has captured another stockade, after one of the sharpest actions that has yet taken place. The rebel position was not far from Sikow, the scene of his last encounter, and lay be tween that village and the city, from which it was not far distant. Early on the morning of the 11th he set out with about 1,200 disciplined Chinese and some field pieces, with which he opened fire shortly before noon. The shell di►d not seem to have their usual effect on this occasion, and an assault was ordered so soon as a breach had been effected in the earthworks, without the defenders having shown any symptom of wavering. Capt. Gibb fell, shot through the heart, while leading the stormers ; and Lieut. Parker was badly wounded, besides a num ber of Chinese put hors de combat; but the position was eventually carried at the point of the bayonet, and the rebels driven with heavy loss under shelter of the guns of Soochow. It is . reported that Gordon has now extended his lines as far as his limited force will permit him, and purposes soon to commence to bombard the city itself. I am inclined, how ever, to think that he will await the arrival of further bodies of mandarin soldiers whom it is hoped the Fatai will be persuaded to send. Macartney has been cruising through the Tae-ho, or Great Lake, to the south west of Soochow, with 2,000 men and 50 gunboats, and has effectually cleared it and the numerous is'ands with which it is studded of rebels, capturing several stockades and receiving the homage of the inhabitants, who seem perfectly indifferent as to who rules, pro vided they are allowed to attend in peace to their silkworms and mulberry trees. They offered to shave their heads, but Macartney deferred exacting this mark of submission to the Tartar until he should be in a position to permanently occupy the district. In Ningpo, the Mandarins and Franco-Chinese, on the one hand, and Colonel Cooke on the other, seem to be resting on their laurels, acquired at Foy ang and Wantaquan respectively, Cooke, however, is on the point of starting for the former city to endeavour to arrange with the Fanti for an attack on the departmental city of Hangehow, formerly one of the richest and most beautiful in China, and at which an old saying of the Chinese affirms that a man ought to have passed a portion of his existence in order to enjoy life thoroughly. A meeting of all the foreign consuls was held on the l'lth at the British Consulate, her Britannic Majesty's Consul in the chair, to deliberate on the best means to be adopted for supp ressin g the row .. dyism, which has lately been inc reasin g to an alarm ing extent in the settlement. En g lan d , France, Russia, America, Prussia, Portugal, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, Spain, and the Hanse Towns were all represented. 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Beautiful, attractive, self-reliant, and fearless, as it seems, of that temper which by the murderer's o PM' showing had betrayed itself to her as dangerous— bent on softening the blow she must inflict, and not shrinking from scenes that cannot bat have been highly wrought and harrowing—there is no short coming here. The hero, too, had some of the qua lities we look for in romance. Tall, handsome, of good bearing, gifted with many of the qualities that ladies love, and capable of a fixed purpose for which he is ready to sacrifice his life—at least we should have expected violence from him to harmonise with our poetical conceptions of crime to which passion, and no directly sordid aim, is the instigator. Yet what a strange revelation the whole scene is of the predominance of habit, of the mastery of the com moner influences over the obvious claims of the occasion, of that slowness to apprehend the bearing and consequences of anything terrible or startling which characterises ordinary men so long as cir- cumstances will allow! E;-en the very proper- ties and surroundings, the images brought be - fore our eyes by the narrative, excite a sense of indigna tion at the deference to instincts of the very com monest everyday life in that snpremest moment. That sweet girl, for such she was—pretty, graceful, animated, courted, beloved—who had, less than an hour before, left her drawing-room, her own proper domain, in all the pride of youth and bloom, is carried dead into the kitchen by her lover, and laid on its hard, rude floor. Then, to be sure, fol lows a melodramatic flourish of heroics. The old grandfather asks, " What ever made you do it ?" and there is the reply, "The woman that deceives me dies." But here begins and ends the only fea ture of the scene in common with the romance of fiction. No remorse, no apostrophizing !—how should there be in the kitchen P It would seem as if the poor old gentleman, in a vague sense of dis comfort and bewilderment, wanted that great con soler of old age—his tea. The murderer had been his guest. For different reasons he must not leave him in the kitchen ; and the way that suggested itself out of the dilemma was to propose that they should have a cup of tea together, and "talk it over." Townley accordingly goes upstair to wash his hands, and sits down with his" Bessie'e grand father to tea ann brandy and water. How far, we wonder, did the scene strike the family doctor as natural when, having taken his necessary survey of the murdered girl he had known so well, stretched cold and stff on the kitchen floor, he was introduced into the library to find the pair at tea together ? There was, he says, little conversation during the quarter of an hour of waiting for the policeman. The prisoner, however, was perfectly self-possessed, and alive to little personal inconveniences. "Look here," he says, showing his hand, "I have cut my self too; can you do something for it ?'"rhen arrives the constable. The prisoner gives himself up, asks to see his victim, is taken once more to the kitchen, looks at her, and pronounces himself far happier than he was before. Now this apathy, this unimpassioned look of things, this routine of every day in such tin unspeakable contrast of circumstance, does not, we know, mean all that it appears to do, but it does mean something. We see a sort of stolid habit prevailing among the main actors. The poor old grandfather might think afterwards that he had acted with a set purpose of detaining the pri soner; but in fact, when utterly bewildered, especi ally at his age, people do follow habit, and the idea " of talking it over at tea" implied, no doubt, a very indistinct notion of what the thing to be talked over was. But how sit down to tea with bloody hands ?—therefore his guest must be asked to wash them. And that poor girl on the kitchen floor ! It is not in ordinary human nature—in no nature that is not carried out of itself—to bring dropping blood, even life-blood of the dearest upon carpets and furniture and front stairs. It belongs to a universal instinct, strengthened by nurses and servants till it becomes part of us; there fore the victim must be laid where blood will leave no stain. We resent it all, but the true vulgarity _ of the scene rests with the murderer himself--with that dull low nature which felt no remorse, which could be sensitive to the pain of a scratch, and still feel a relish for his tea after he had satisfied his revenge—which could look upon her be professed to have loved, and realise that recent act of brutal vengeance, and " feel happier," and keep a good appetite, and be composed and well-behaved, and never for a moment sorry, never stung by memory, never oppressed by that ‘ insupportable and heavy hour" when a soul made for better things wakes to the sense of an irrevocable crime. A restless desire to be comfortable seems to lie at the bottom of this state of mind—a craving for satisfaction and an immediate relief when this is attained. Selfishness of this magnitude cannot regard things for a moment out of their relation to self, so as to be ob jects of disinterested pity or sorrow. Remorse does not know how to find its way into such minds. They feel so strongly the right and duty to make themselves comfortable that no other consideration can find an entrance. A very similar case, tried in the same court, occurred, it may be remembered, two years ago. The man Thorley was a pugilist, a low sort of fellow, but not without friends and sympathisers. He saw his sweetheart two or three times in company with a soldier cousin, " and didn't like it ;" and so he cut her throat, and told the policeman to whom he gave him self in charge that he felt a deal more comfortable after it. He had but two requests to make after this relief to his feelings—the first to the constable, that he would allow him to smoke his pipe out, for perhaps he should never have another—the second to the magistrates, that his mother might bring him his Sunday dinner. Education does not uni formly make a differenee. At the bottom of all may lurk the savage, lulled for the moment and smoothed over by a little outside polish, bat only waiting for his occasion. There was a moment when Othello felt a touch of this mood, and he knew it—when he felt the rising demon turning that into murder which was sacrifice. But he did not rest an instant in the comfortable stage. Nor did he murder his wife for the sake of his own ease, but on some blind notion of injured honour. He felt for his victim throughout—" the pity of it, lago, the pity of it"— and remorse rushed in with the first knowledge that he had accomplished his parpose, not waiting to be undeceived. With him it was—" My wife, my wife ! What wife ? I have no wife" instead of pipes, and tea, and brandy and water. LONDON REVIEW.—The curious stress laid on the fact that Townley justified openly in his cell the deed for which he was condemned, reminds us not a little of a similar scene depicted ty that master hand which, within the last few weeks, has been laid cold in death. Everybody knows Sir Bulwer Lytton's " Eugene Aram." Everybody knows Mr. Thackeray's amusing and witty parody of it in his comic imitation novel, entitled " George de Barnewell." Seated in the condemned cell, George de Barnewell conversed with his excellent chaplain upon metaphysics in general—the s oul—existence —Plato—and the Ideal and the Beautiful. Where there is no remorse, said George de Barnewell, there can b 2 no crime. I am not sorry—therefore I am innocent. Is my reasoning correct? And the venerable chaplain admitted that the argument could not be con futed. We cannot help thinking that some similar scene must have taken place in the gaol, when Mr. Gordon a' tempting to prove to George Victor Townley that murder was sinful, George Victor Townley rolled his eyes, and told the gentleMr.Gordon that, upon all moral and philosophical grounds, Mr. Gordon's reasoning was unsound. Lastly, the public have before them at some length, in the Derby shire Advertiser, a history of the vacillations which Sir George Grey's mind has undergone on the subject. The new material on which the prisoner's sentenee was changed is set forth at length. First and foremost, having brought Dr. Winslow to swear that the prisoner's conversation contained symptoms of moral insanity, the friends of the prisoner now come forward to declare that the prisoner's early life and The inferenco is absurd, even if were not overwhelmed and destroyed by the mass of plain testimony to the contrary given in court at Derby. Next we arrive at the Lunacy Commission sent down by Sir G. Grey to visit Townley in prison. We are told that Townley was never made aware of the object of their visit. Very possibly. But did Town ley not know it as well as if governor, turnkeys, and chap lain had all thundered it in hie ears? Credat Judceus, we say. Three Commissioners are hard at work probing the state of George Victor Townley's mental faculties, three dais before the day of execution,and Mr. Townley converses as innocently and ignorantly of it all as a babe. If Townley did in truth remain unconscious of all this kindly inquisi tion, it says far more for his imbecility than has ever yet been said for his insanity. The Commissioners then examine witnesses. Was there anybody to cross-examine them ? Why were not these witnesses forth coming when the prisoner stood before the judge and jury on his deliverance ? We really do not know. Let us hdpe that Sir George Grey at least knows, and that he will vouch safe to give this valuable information to the country. Finally, has there been the faintest shadow of fact to rebut the proof given at the assizes—a proof so unequivocal that after five minutes' deliberation the jury came to the conclu sion that at the moment of doing the deed Townley knew what he was about? Mental derangement of a certain sort will not do. Moral blindness is not enough. Blind pas sions and uncontrollable impulses are besides the question. What else has appeared to modify the former indestructible evidence we are left for the present to guess, hopelessly in the dark; but as two out of the three Commissioners sent down by the Home Office were doctors, the third being a solicitor, we cannot help our suspicions. Upon the report of the Commission, or of a majority of the Commission, Sir George Grey has acted. George Victor Townley passes by a happy transition from the scaffold to Bethlehem Hospi tal. The country may congratulate itself if the arrange ment does not issue in a vast increase of bloodshed through. out the length and breadth of England, These things sow their seed, and the seed is unhappily the seed of blood. In the interest of human life this case must not pass over without explanation. It is because humane men hate hanging and regard it as a sad necessity, that they ask that if mercy is to be shown it should not be shown in cases where to show mercy is to encourage mad passion and crime. The law is clear, and made for the protection of human life. Life becomes insecure when the law comes down from its high seat and makes way for a commission of doctors. Some step must be taken, for the sake of society, to come to a clear understanding on the question both of insanity and of the present exercise of the royal prerogative by the Home Office. Aa at present advised we are inclinedto believe with much dissatisfaction that Townley owes a justly-forfeited life to the illegal theories of a few doctors, to the weakness of Sir George Grey, and to the great activity of Townley's many friends. So far we are of one mind with "S. G. 0," Let there be one law for rich and poor. Townley has had advantages which men less favourably circumstanced never would have possessed; and, on the very doubtful hypothesis that Sir George Grey is right in remitting his sentence, every poor man has the right to ask that the law and procedure in cases of murderous insanity should be carefully reformed. SPEcTITOR,—Every incident of the week has made war itself more probable, and almost every one has drawn England deeper into the fray. Before our next number issues hostilities may have commenced between Denmark and the Diet, with the full understanding that England is about to become one of the active belligerents. The events which have led to this situation, so dangerous and so an noying, are all tolerably clear, ',hough our Government, considering the imminence of the danger is more reticent than its wont. The British Ministry, it seems evident, though deeply offended at the conditions foisted into the treaty of 1852, resolved not to fight simply to prevent the execution in Holstein. Whoever was Duke, the province was German, and Germany in her collective capacity had a right to march troops into the duchy on grounds of whose validity she alone was the legal judge. Lord Wodehouse was, therefore, instructed to advise the Danes to retire, and they did retire, yielding up even the military work which protects the passage of the Eider. So completely was this concession at variance with Danish feeling, and so eager were the invaders, that at the very last moment hostilities were on the point of breaking out, and a Danish captain chased a Saxon Regiment which had advanced too far on the bridge back at the point of the bayonet. Still the concession was made, and was rewarded by the imme diate loss of Holstein to the Danish Crown. Everywhere as the Danes retired the people proclaimed Duke Frederick and all the force of a popular election is now added to all the strength he derives from hereditary descent. This con cesion made the Germans advance a step further. The smaller governments resolved thatSchleswig should also be occupied, and the resolve met with a cordial response from the mass of the German people. The two great Courts, afraid at once of a general war and of provoking a revolu tion, proposed in the Diet that Schleswig should be "occu pied" unless the common constitution were withdrawn. The condition is an impossible one, because the withdrawal demands a vote King Christian cannot get; but we are bound to say it was not of necessity dishonestly made. The Austrian, if not the Prussian, idea was, no doubt, to occupy Schleswig, instead of invading it, and then refer the question, as being an international one, to a conference, of the Powers. To make this plan successful, however, the consent of Denmark was necessary, and Denmark refused to consent. Schleswig--whatever its individual rights— was still a fief of Denmark, and not of Germany, and for the Danes to give up their dependencies under menace— even if legally as little their property as the Septinsular Republic was the property of Great Britain—was to sign their own extinction as an independent people. Great Britain for the same reason could not advise a step which would involve all the results of defeat before the struggle had been begun. Moreover, she was bound by every feeling of honour to give the ally who had accepted her advice to her own hurt some protection in return for her previous docility. The object, also, of the treaty of 1852 was to protect the integrity and independence of Den mark; to yield up Schleswig was to yield that indepen dence, and, therefore, to abolish a treaty prepared by the very Minister now responsible for the councils of Great Britain. Finally, there was no proof, or not sufficient proof, that the people of Schleswig, even if entitled to the rights of nationality—an impossible admission, unless Wales and Brittany are nationalities—have ever rejected the Danish connection. On the contrary, it is believed that the Danish and Frisian vote would be thrown in favour of Denmark, and that together they would outnumber the re luctant German minority. Moved by all these considera tions, and others of which we may know nothing, Earl Russell addressed to the Diet a note, which the Germans describe as " blustering," but which apparently amounts to this—if the troops of the Diet cross the Eider England will be unable any longer to refuse Denmark her assistance. In other words, the British Government will, if the Germans persist, declare war on so much of Germany as shall help nof t S li c e h m ie , sw an ig d . net with England or Will, then, the Germans persist, invasion f i o n r v i a ti o s with Den mark, that the issues now rest ? 'cc e greatly fear that they will. It is possible that Austria, not being wholly depen dent on Germany, and terrified by risings in Venetia and Hungary, may have the nerve to retire ; but that will not very seriously alter the situation. Germany would ho still too powerful for Denmark, still ready to brave Great Britain rather than surrender the coveted province. The remaining German States are urged on by one of those fits of enthusiasm which sometimes seizes great nations, which, in Teutonic races, burn very slowly out, and which at any moment may produce a movement or a vote terminating all discussion. It is said, with apparent truth, that France has consented to the English proposal of a conference on the matter; but this consent, even if given, does not settle the difficulty. The Diet may not consent, and probably will not, for the Diet has throughout the affair pressed two immovable points—Holstein is German, and its occupation a matter of internal concern ; Schleswig is inseperably united with Holstein, and must share its fate. If the Diet, therefore, consents to put Schleswig into the crucible it is beaten without a fight, and can henceforward make no pretensions to lead the German race. It is diffi cult to believe that the Diet, well aware that submission may lead to immediate revolution, will consent to submit, unless pressed by a coalition of which there seems no chance. This conference is the last hope—but near as we seem to .war, there is nothing in the proceedings of the British Government which can reasonably be blamed. It ~~~..~ ---,. NEWSPAPER N,-, , 1 - 17-_-7,,,, , g5, selves within reach of the.ltw. DeportAieffiiihe -- '''e:ki4Vc`,--' 7 1 4 A - y4`' consuls 4 only apparent remedy, but this the majrit.iiit+ ~ ,,,.-ev Nfl4 y 4; consuls declared they had not sufficient - JO , ' k 3. f ia7_ ~ ,is ',;i 1 )" ". ) adopt. A good deal of discussion took p* ../.. ;41 ae '' course of which several resolutions were eft ',-- ?.....- but not all of a very practical nature. Iu thatist a S place, a better surveillance over members of unre presented nationalities is hoped to be attained, by requesting the Chinese to delegate to the Municipal Council their right to deal with such. But this measure is not likely to be cf much effect, as Greeks are almost the only unrepresented nationals in Shan ghai. An injudicious proposal was made by the English Consul, and, I regret to say, adopted, viz., that the Chinese should be requested rigorously to arrest esery foreigner iiscovered in the interior without a passport. At, a first glance this may appear likely to be effectual in preventing the wan derings of improper characters, but this will not be its only effect. It encourages the Chinese in the maintenance of that exclusiveness which it is our great interest to bre'.k down. Every useful purpose would be served if the Mandarins arrested any foreigner found committing crime in the interior, and handed him over to his national representative, and this they are not likely to neglect to do. To authorise them—nay, to request then to arrest any traveller not provided with a regular pass is at once to re•establish barriers which had been partially broken down. It is by destroying its root and source that the evil of rowdyism must be attacked, not by lop ping away its offshoots. So long es a low-class un employed population is allowed to accumulate at Shanghai, crimes will be of constant occurrence. Some supervision should be exercised over these, and all who can give no satis!actory account of themselves or their prospects, requested to " move on" to some other port. Acting on this principle, the Spanish Consul informed tle meeting that ho had already written to Manilla for a Spanish frigate, to convey away between 200 aid 300 Manillamen who are infesting the settlement. It was ultimately resolved that a general meeting of foreign consuls should take place every monti ; that a committee should be appointed consiting of several of the prin cipal consuls and the Chairman of the English and French Municipal Councils, to frame such regula tions as they might deem suitable for the mainte nance of order among the foreign populations; and lastly, that such consuls as were not satisfied with the extent of their powers sould write to their respective Governments for an extension of them. The intelligence which has been received during the past fortnight from Japan is much more satisfac tory than any which has arrived of late, and affords hope that war may yet be avoided. The Prince of Satsuma has at length become convinced that it is useless to protract his resistance to the Eng lish demands, and has consented to accede to every request we have made. He deputed several of his high officers to visit Colonel Neale, with whom they had three long interviews, and in the last agreed to arrangements of a perfectly satis factory nature. A high officer of the Tycoon was present during the interviews, and distinctly under stood and approved the result. Atfirst the envoys ex pressed a strong feeling that the Prince of Satsuma had not been well treated by the British fleet in seizing and burning his steamers without warning of Admiral Kuper's intention, but they confessed that the matter assumed a different aspect after Colonel Neale's explanation—that the steamers had been seized in the first instance, without any intention of burning them, on account of the Prince's dilatori ness in replying to Col. Neale's despatch, and had subsequently been destroyed when the Japanese commenced hostilities by firing on the English ships. So friendly has Satsuma now become, if appear ances may be trusted, that he expressed, through his envoys, a desire to send some of the young nobi lity to England to be educated. The Jeddo Government has recalled the edict which was issued some two months ago, decreeing the expulsion of foreigners from Japan, but the re quest that foreigners would withdraw from Yoko. bama, which was made a few weeks ago to the American and Datch Ministers, has been formally communicated to the English and French. The Japanese seem to be awaiting a reply from the seve ral Governments before carrying the matter further. In the meantime trade has slightly improved, though complaints are still made of the short supply of silk brought into the market. Since writinf , the above I have learnt that Gordon has crossed the Tae-ho, to the west side of Soochow, where he has captured some stockades on the grand canal, and effected a junction with some Mandarin troops who have marched down from theupper por tion of the province. It is believed the bombardment of the city will have begun at the time I am writ ing this. THE WEATHER AND THE PARKS. Contrary to the expectations of the officers of the Royal Humane Society, tho carriage drives and foot promenades of Hyde-park were yesterday thronged with carriages and pedestrians. Although the frozen surfaces were in many places covered with two or three inches of water, and though the glass indicated that the thaw had sot in very rapidly, and the large boards hung out by the direction of Mr. Young, the secretary, set forth, that the ice was in a rotten and dangerous condition, no less than 2,000 ventured upon the remaining ice in Hyde-park. The consequence was that several persons were tripped up by the most ex pert skaters, and one person in particular had his nose nearly cut off by the point of a skate. Ho was taken to the receiving -house, and his injury was dressed by Dr. Chris tian. In order to caution the public from going upon the river, a reading of the thermometer was conspicuously put up in front of the Receiving-house, stating that on Saturday night the temperature was at 38 deg., showing 6 deg. above freez ing point. At nine in the morning of Sunday the glass stood at the same point, whilst at noon it had risen to 40 deg. The weather was also stated as being foggy, and even the wind was set forth as being S.E., but all these precau tionary measures could not keep the people off the ice. The Round Pond was also patronised by 1,500 sliders and skaters. The ice on this favoured resort is described as being very dangerous, and only 2} inches thick. Prepara tions had been made to carry out a grand pyrotechnic dis play on the ice on Saturday night, but the same coming to the knowledge of Mr. Young, the secretary of the Royal Humane Society, he communicated with Sir Richard Mayne, and pointed out the great danger that might arise by such displays, and the consequence was that no one was allowed to sell fireworks on the ice. The Regent's-park had about 4,000 on the broad water, but the gates leading to the private gates were closed, and the icemen were enabled to keep the people from venturing upon the narrow cuts. Several serious accidents took place on the broad water, but they were attended to by Dr. Norton. . _ -.— -- ST. JAMES'S-PAPS. — This was the great rendezvous of the people yesterday, Such scenes as took place have not been witnessed during the skating seasons for years. At an early hour the crowd began to pour through Storey's Gate, not in hundreds, but in thousands, From the Surrey side of Westminster-bridge a continuous stream of persons came wending their way to this park, A great number of im mersions took place during the day, whilst the slopes and walks were Crowded with spectators, including about 2,000 females. Victoria Park, Battersea Park, the ponds at Hampstead and Clapham, had very few patrons. The ice in the Grand Surrey Canal is in many places broken up, and barges laden with coal and timber can now pass. CHIMINO CLOCK,—" The large clock in the centre tran sept is a fine piece of mechanism, one of the largest chiming,” —Morning Post, Sept. 29, 1862. Clocks by the first artists of the day for the drawing room, dining room, bed room, library, hall, staircase, bracket, carriage, church, turret, railways, warehouse, counting house, musical, and astronomical Church and turret clocks specially estimated for. Benson's illustrated pamphlet on clocks (free by post for two stamps), with descriptions and prices, enables these who live in an y part of the world to select a clock. Also a short pamphlet on cathedral and public clocks, free for one stamp. Prize medal and honourable mention in classes 33 and 13. J. W. Benson 33 and 31, Ludgate-hill, London. Established 1749. Watch and clock maker by special warrant of appoiniumnt to 11.11.11. the Prince of Wales. UNCONTROLLABLE IMPULSE,---William Stephen son, clerk, has been convicted of stabbing one of Turner's pictures in the National Gallery in several places with a knife. He pleaded guilty to the charge, and said he did the mischief in a moment of uncontrollable excitement. 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